Kukla's Korner Hockey

These are not happy days for Ed Belfour.
Those who know him best say the Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender functions best in an orderly world. Uncertainty unsettles him.
But those meanies in charge of the National Hockey League dealt Belfour and the rest of his fellow members of the goaltenders' union nothing but uncertainty this season. They shrunk the size of goalie pads and gloves. The oversized sweaters are next on the list, giving back the advantage to the shooters that the netminders steadily seized over the past two decades.